Lincolns Spymaster, David Hepburn Milton
Lincolns Spymaster, David Hepburn Milton
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Lincoln's Spymaster
Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network

Author: David Hepburn Milton

Narrator: William Hughes

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

The Civil War conjures images of bloodsoaked battlefields in the United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe. While the Confederacy sought Great Britain as a strategic ally, the Union utilized diplomacy and espionage to avert both the construction of a Confederate navy and the threat of war with England.At the forefront of the international fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the American consul in Liverpool and the father of modern American intelligence. As the Confederates determined to utilize British shipyards, Dudley established a network of agents throughout England to report on enemy activities and, ultimately, to negate foreign intervention in the American Civil War.

About David Hepburn Milton

David Hepburn Milton is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of The Politics of US Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal. He and his wife, Nancy Dall Milton, coauthored The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China 1964–1969, cited in the New York Times Best Books of the Year list, 1976. He also co-edited the Random House China Reader: People’s China.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dick

For me this book was a revelation with regard to how much was going on overseas in Great Britain during our civil war. I have spent many decades studying Lincoln and that war. But my focus has been social/political and domestic nature. This book revealed how myopic my views have been. Embarrassing, a......more

Goodreads review by Kurt

I gave this book four stars because I thought it was very interesting and I could not stop reading it. Lincoln's Spymaster is about Allan Pinkerton's live and how he be came the first private eye. The book talks about him as a spy and a detective. He started three different detective offices. He help......more

Goodreads review by Jrobertus

I was dubious, at first, about this slim, scholarly volume. It deals with a New England Quaker/lawyer, Thomas Dudley, who became the U.S. consul in Liverpool during the Civil War. How exciting could gthat be? Well more so than you would think. Once I got started I found it difficult to put down. Liv......more

Goodreads review by Tom

This is really an amazing tale of spycraft in Civil War Liverpool with Dudley the American agent ("station chief") working angles and unfolding plots with violent denoument on the high seas. It really highlights in detail the complicated role Britain played in the American Civil War. Unfortunately, t......more

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